But maybe this makes it easier—knowing that you will be nauseated and lost when you try to do anything in life other than stay on an understandable, legible, unobjectionable trajectory. Sometimes this is called safety. But it’s really not safe. It’s just steady-state. People with safe jobs get cancer and get fired all the time. Often, taking the ‘s... See more

The moat carries another problem equal to that of low-status shame. Boredom. In the same way that great artists must strive through the moat of knowingly creating bad art, any person departing their life as a mud person does so because they want a more interesting, meaningful life. But moat life is often *more* boring and *more* tedious than mud li... See more